The new OUH in figures: Facts about the construction

Here are various facts about the construction of the new OUH regarding size, area and future capacity.

Areas

Ground area: Exceeds 800,000 m2
Floor area (gross): 300,000 m2, of which OUH covers: 247,000 m2
Steno Diabetes Center: 20,000 m2
Adult Psychiatry: approx. 20,000 m2
Child/Youth Psychiatry: 13,000 m2

Transport and Parking

The length of the ring road around the hospital: 2,2 km

Light Rail

The Light Rail drives straight through the new OUH and has two stops, one at the main entrance to the south and one at the junction to SDU to the north. The Light Rail is already established and carries out test drives through the construction site.

Parking Spaces

Preparations are underway for up to 4,200 parking spaces in the area. There will be a total of 3,000 parking spaces for bicycles around the buildings, including covered bicycle parking.

The external framework of the building is almost completed on the new OUH’s construction site in May 2021

Follow the construction work

Follow the activities on the construction site from the air while we build Denmark’s largest newly built university hospital on the site measuring nearly 860,000 m2, south of SDU.

Follow the construction work

Capacity at the hospital of the future

Number of rooms in total: approx. 10,000

Beds: 905 (750 in Somatics and rest in Psychiatry):

468 beds in bed areas used by one or more medical specialty according to needs
15 beds in Isolation
70 beds in HC Andersen Children and Youth Hospital
22 beds in Child and Youth Psychiatry
142 beds in Adult Psychiatry, including 14 beds for eating disorders
66 treatment and observation seats in FAM (Somatics and Psychiatry in total) + 4 recliners
68 beds in Intensive Care
4 beds in Respiratory Centre South
52 operating theatres (stationary and for outpatient surgery)

Outpatient Clinics and Examinations:

379 outpatient rooms
Scanner capacity Radiology: 22 MRI scanners and CT scanners, 12 conventional scanners
Scanner capacity Nuclear Medicine: A total of 9 PET/CT scanners and PET/MRI scanners

Sustainable Building

Ensuring energy conservation and environmentally-friendly solutions in many areas have been in focus in the building of the new OUH. Here are three examples:

Renewable energy. The objective is for at least 20 % of the new OUH’s energy consumption to be covered by renewable energy. The 25,000 m² photovoltaic system in place is expected to produce 4,500 MWh per year.
External sun protection. This ensures energy conservation by reducing the cooling needs for the buildings when the sun shines on the windows in the summertime.
Instead of using stable gravel (raw material from quarries), the new OUH has prioritized using recycled crushed concrete as the base layer for Hospitalsringen, the ring road around New OUH.